I suppose it is understandable to consider the recent firing of Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as just another casualty among the mass firings President Donald Trump has ...

The BLS produces data relied on by businesses and policymakers, including the Fed.

Consumer sentiment worsened in August, snapping two consecutive months of improved attitudes among shoppers as President ...

Saving taxpayer money, saving lives and finding novel solutions to meaningful problems is what government workers do every ...

On August 11, Trump announced his nominee to replace McEntarfer: E.J. Antoni, chief economist and Richard Aster fellow at The ...

President Trump on Friday accused the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Erika McEntarfer of faking jobs numbers, directing his team to fire the former President Biden appointee. Trump ...

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

E.J. Antoni is a partisan hack. A frequent guest on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" podcast, he’s joined Bannon in criticizing the ...

But while Greece famously faked its way into the European Union and Argentina to this day remains embroiled in legal fights over its own sham numbers, there key differences here: The US economy is the ...

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs report. She had served as BLS head for a year and a half.

Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer because he said she rigged the numbers to make ...

President Donald Trump plans to nominate Dr. E.J. Antoni as the new Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. The nomination ...